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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
igfe.
DAI LY&TROJAN
XXXII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, January 3, 1941
No. 64
Ingress
Begin
sion
ibers to Face >lem of More Aid to Britain
[ING TON — (U.P.)— »ntly-elected 77th con->nvenes at noon today igurate what may be the most momentous in the nation’s his-
the major problems it (are the explosive Issue of aid to Great Britain. U»-ssident Roosevelt’s loan-to send war materials |nd the question of keep-^se check on progress of -billion dollar prepared-
)RD SET
late made certain today be at least one record I congress will not break.
be the longevity record >y the never-say-die third the 76th congress—367 lis chamber, on motion of Imocratic Leader Alben W. |voted to meet again at tomorrow, just one half re the 76th congress auto-| passes into history, ise earlier had adjourned |when it quit without set-time for its next meeting.
scheduled to come be-lew congress was discus-by President Roosevelt. 5am Ravbum and House ^c Leader John W. Mc-Ravbum said they talk-f. Roosevelt’s forthcoming the union*’ message,” to Monday, and the bud-fe scheduled to reach Dl Tuesday.
TO INCREASE belief is that the budget for appropriations of ).000 of which $10,000,-tould be for defense pur-
Important business trans-1 either chamber today was tion by the senate of J.
ladden. former chairman | national labor relations be a judge of the U. S. [claims.
Extended ill-U Show its, Music
|ts who are preparing composing music for the ersity show have until Feb-turn in their work, ac-Morton Block, manager Productions.
leadline for scripts and extended so that students fk on their contributions id after finals. If their re finished now. however, ly turn them in at any |ock said yesterday, or music may be turned Plav Productions office, ent Union between 3 and ny day during the week. Ipts and music written for will be entered in the ISCAP contest. Winners of script and musical score liwarded $750 each, or if a Inner for both music and chosen he will get $1500.
■,ident's Ice Notice
is the day set jr the dedication of fck hall of the Allan ick Foundation for fic Research.
|ecial assembly to be ?d by official dele-ld guests will be held i.m. in Bovard audi-All regular classes ;used for this period, Ldents are invited to these exercises as the jy of the auditorium frmit.
regular class schedule day will be resumed the close of this as-
B» von KieinSmid
President
Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid—
to accept gift.
Capt. Allan Hancock—presents
university with building.
Dedication Program
(Events listed in the program, below will be open without charge to students, faculty members, and the public.)
10 a.m.—DEDICATION CONVOCATION—Bovard auditorium, Dr. R. B. von KieinSmid presiding
“The Star-Spangled Banner”—led by Dr. Max Krone with Prof. Archibald Sessions at the organ Invocation by Dr. Robert J. Taylor, acting dean, Graduate School of Religion Musical Program: Miss Virginia Card, soprano; Mr.
Jan Haraszthy, pianist Presentation of building—Capt. Allan Hancock. Acceptance for board of trustees by R. B. von KieinSmid, president of the university.
Address—“Responsibility of Science in Planning for a New World Order”—Dr. John C. Merriam, president emeritus, Carnegie Institution of Washington. 2:30 p.m.—BUILDING OPEN TO STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND THE PUBLIC—Tours start on the hour and half-hour throughout the day. Guides will be available at the east foyer of Hancock hall.
(Continued on Page Two)
Foreign' Planes Rain Bombs on Dublin in Series of Raids
DUBLIN, Jan. 3—(U.P.)—Bombs crashed on Dublin early today and buried screaming civilians in the ruins of several houses as foreign warplanes attacked neutral Eire (Ireland) for the fourth time in slightly more than 24 hours.
At least three persons—two girls -
and a woman—are known to have ____ „ _ _
NROTC To Get Naval Gun
Arrival of a 4-inch destroyer-type gun, to be used in familiarizing NROTC students with the care and operation of naval weapons of This explosion was felt throughout j particular type, is expected to-
been killed in the series of raids which began Wednesday night. Many other persons were r ;:orted injured.
One hospital here reported that seven persons were admitted at 4:45 a.m. today suffering from injuries after a lone plane dropped bombs this morning on a Dublin residential section.
A high explosive bomb damaged two blocks of houses in south Dublin
the city. The bomb fell within 150 feet of the famous Griffith barracks in the midst of what is known as Dublin's ghetto.
Windows of houses for several blocks on both sides of the street were shattered and residents were forced to evacuate the dwellings.
The city’s principal synagogue also was wrecked. •
In this raid, houses in Donore Terrace were struck by the bombs and several persons buried in the wreckage. Almost all the windows in homes along Dufferin avenue were shattered by the bomb explosions.
Two houses ln in Etonore Terrace
day, Capt. Reed Fawell stated yesterday.
The gun, complete with mounts, weighs 11.000 pounds, and will be placed in the naval unit’s armory in the basement of the Physical Education building.
CREWS ORGANIZED
Gun crews will be made up from ranks to simulate loading and firing of the weapon, which accommodates shells 4 inches in diameter.
Four .22-caliber rifles were received yesterday. These guns will be used for target practice only, according to Captain Fawell.
were hit directly by the bombs and
eight persons seriously injured were LTCIFORMS ARRIVE
removed from the wreckage. In addition to the rifles. 80 uni-
At 5:30 a.m. police and soldiers forms arrived yesterday for final
still were digging in the wreckage fitting. They will be returned to
for other persons trapped. the factory today for alterations
Fiv areas around Dublin were at- and insignia attachment. Captain
tacked in the series of raids before Fawell expressed his belief that the
bombs finally fell on this city. Three uniforms will be completed in time
bombs last night crashed on a road for next Friday’s drill,
rear a village in county Wexford. He says that the unit will be in
directly south of Dublin. “ship-shape” form when it gets its
In addition to scattering bombs uniforms and that he hopes Rufus
over Ireland the foreign warplanes B. von KieinSmid will be able to
planted magnetic sea mines along review the group in its drill Fri-
the coast facing England. day afternoon, January 17.
One Dead as Bomber Missing
No Word Received From Navy Plane Caught in Storm
BIG SPRING, Tex., Jan. 2— (U.P.)—The commander of a long-range naval bomber, en route with two others from San Diego to Pensacola, today ordered five of his crew to take to parachutes when the ship was caught in a west Texas snow storm.
One man was killed, and tonight, hours after the other two bombers arrived safely at Corpus Christi, Tex., there was no word of Lieut. M. Hanson, pilot, Alamogorda, N.M., and Ensign R. B. Clark, Pomona, co-pilot. They fought to hold aloft their plane which was mushing down under an ice load while the crew bailed out.
CREW JUMPS
The aviation machinist’s mate, second class, who was killed while parachuting to earth was William Frank Percich. 25. Friday Harbor, Wash. He leaves a widow in San Diego.
The other four crew members who parachuted safely to earth were Lloyd J. Hughes, 30, Grand Rapids, Mich., radioman, first class; H. E. Neff, 34, San Diego, aviation chief machinist’s mate; Frank Recke, Jr., 30, National City, Calif., aviation machinist’s mate, first class; and Alfred M. Perry, 31, Los Angeles.
The Navy at San Diego said the plane apparently was having trouble with its radio after running into the storm. t . _ _
PILOTS REMAIN
Landing the 13-ton patrol seaplane on land would be hazardous if not impossible, if the crew wished to escape.
Perry, radioman, third class, “believed” Hanson had the ship under control when the men jumped. In the storm and murk he wasn’t positive.
A flight of planes was scheduled to take off at daybreak tomorrow in the search for Che long-range Navy patrol bomber.
RAF Bombers Shower Bremen With Incendiaries
LONDON, Jan. 2 —<U.E>—British bombers driving through bittter snowy weather tonight laid thunderous siege to the spearhead of Germany’s “invasion front” after raining 20,000 incendiary bombs on Bremen and its Nazi war plants in a fierce reprisal for London’s ordeal of fire.
Tonight's assult on the German channel bases followed announcement that the RAF, paying the Germans back “in their own coin,” had set fire to Bremen's big Fooke-Wuif aviation factory and left other military targets in flaming ruin in Wednesday night’s assault.
The Bremen attack appeared to have been one of the heaviest yet unleashed by the RAF in its counter offensive, whic’ will be steadily intensified with the arrival of more and more United States bombing planes, being flown across the Atlantic “in a steady stream,” it was said.
The great shipbuilding yards charged with a heavy share in the Germ - conuter-blockade of Britain were the chief objectives of the Pritish bombers.
Nazi Flyers to Aid Italy in Mediterraean
ROME. Jan. 2 — (TP) — Powerful squadrons of the German air force, all hardened veterans of the siege of the British isles, have arrived ln Italy to “collaborate” with th? fascist air force in a “bitter air and naval” showdown against the British in the Mediterranean war zone, it was announced today.
Astronomer to Speak
“The Fallacies of Astrology” will be explained by Dr. Clarence H. Cleminshaw, assistant professor ot astronomy, when he speaks before the Sophomore-Junior club Monday. The group will meet at 12 M. 306 Administration.
Final Apolliad Deadline Set
To many students Valentine's day means candy . . and hearts . . and sweet sentiment.
But to student creative geniuses on campus Friday, February 14. means just one thing—on that day Apolliad manuscripts are due.
That leaves exactly six weeics for student contributors to revise, rewrite. and polish up on their contributions for the Apolliad program, a movement to further creative arts cm the campus.
Faculty advisers will accept creative works in the form of short stories, poetry, essays, one-act plays,
painting, drawing, sketching, sculp-' turing, original musical composi-; tions. or dances. They emphasize the fact that Apolliad is an all-university event and urge students from all fields to contribute.
Contributions selected by the committee will form a program to be presented in Touchstone theater, Old Cofllege, on April 19. Guest critics will judge the student work and send letters of criticism.
In selecting the best manuscripts for the program the faculty committee will choose only compositions best suited for oral presentation.
University Will Dedicate New Hancock Hall Today
Processional to Precede Assembly
DEDICATED TODAY—Hancock hall, $1,000,000 monument to scientific research and cultural edu-ceftion, will be presented officially to SC today. Combining the charm of Italian-Romanesque design with the strength of contemporary architectural lines, the structure harmonizes with the other campus buildings. Unique prehistoric sculptures on the north face of the auditorium remind students of Rancho La Brea, one of the world's finest sources of ancient fossil remains.
Methodist Association College Leaders Meets at SC Monday Attend Services
of addresses on “Implementing the Campus Religious Program” and one on the “Association’s Aims for the Quadrennium” by President Ar-lo A. Brown of Drew Theological Seminary.
“Methodist Education and National Responsibilities” will be the theme of the second annual gathering of the Association of Schools and Colleges of the Methodist church to take place on the campus Monday and Tuesday.
Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid is president of tne association; which includes in its membership 138 institutions. At least 75 of the mem-ber-schools are expected to have representatives at the conference, which precedes the convention of the Association of American colleges, to take place in Pasadena later in the week.
President Umphrey Lee of Southern Methodist university will deliver the principal address of the opening dinner-meeting January 6.
He will discuss Methodist education and national unity. President John L. Seaton of Albion college, will deliver the invocation.
Addresses on the second day’s program will include those by President Fred G. Holloway, Western Maryland college; Dr. Hugh C.
Stunts, Scaritt college; and President H. J. Burgstahler, Ohio Wesleyan university;
President William P. Tolley, Allegheny college; President James L.
Robb, Tennessee Wesleyan college; and Dr. H. W. McPherson, executive secretary of the division of educational institutions, board of education.
The meeting will be concluded Tuesday evening following a series
Petroleum Course to Aid Defense
Designed for the purpose of aiding national defense, a new course approved by the United States government soon will become a part of the program of the College of Engineering.
According to an announcement made yesterday by Dr. Robert E. Vivian, acting dean of the College of Engineering, the class will serve for the testing and inspection of petroleum products. It will extend over a period of 16 weeks.
Dr. Vivian announced that persons planning to enroll must be high school graduates and should have one or two years of engineering training or experience.
The federal government will pay the expenses of the course.
Japanese Club Gives Dinner, Entertainment
Dale Sears, who visited in Japan this past summer, and Ken Matsu-inoto will speak at a dinner and entertainment given in the men’s grill tonight for the members of the Japanese Trojan club.
The affair will start at 6:30 p.m., and the price is 75 cents. Reservations can be made with Ken Uyesugi and Iwao Matsuoka.
Von KieinSmid to Be Honored
Honoring Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid as he begins his 20th year as president of the university, Town and Gown will inaugurate its schedule for 1941 with a luncheon and program next Tuesday.
Tribute will be paid to the Internationally-known educator who has guided the institution from its status as a campus with few buildings to its present standing of 21 major structures.
PRESIDENT TO SPEAK Dr. von KieinSmid will speak on the topic, "Our University.”
Guests at the event will include new members of Town and Gown, and the husbands of all members. Mrs. Paul W. Jones and Mrs. Bertram Eugene Green are in charge of reservations.
RECEIVING LINE Those receiving at the occasion will include:
Mesdames H. O. Bames, J. M. Beach, Robert Brown, Coy Burnett, Len H. Darling, Edward C. Dieter, Anthony Enwer, John P. Herrick, Maude A. Hilton, West Hughes, L. Max Lee, C. E. Love, and Ida S. Olshausen.
Jack Paschell, Henry Prentiss, Neal Rudy, A. E. Sedgwick, Harry Silke, Herbert W. Stanton, Paul Stevens, G. J. Symington, Oscar A. Trippett, O. C. Wellboum, Hugh Willett, Dr. Arlien Johnson, and Miss Joan Scott.
Nation's Universities to Be Represented
Presidents and officials of American universities taking part in the annual convention of the As-socation of American Colleges, to be held at Pasadena’s Hotel Huntington January 9 and 10, will be present today and tomorrow to participate in the two-day ceremonies for the dedication of the new Hancock hall of the Allan Hancock Foundation for Scientific Research.
Theme of the conference, which represents 556 institutions throughout the nation, will be “Liberal Education and Democracy.”
Dr. Edward V. Stanford of Villanova college, Pennsylvania, ls president of the association. Educators in charge of the meeting here are Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid; Dr. Remsen D. Bird, president of Occidental college and vice-president of the association; and Dr. Charles K. Edmunds, president of Pomona college.
Among speakers at the meetings will be Henry Luce, editor of Time; Count Carlo Sforza, formerly Italian minister of foreign affairs; Paul van Zeeland, former prime minister of Belgium; and Reinhold Schairer of the University of London.
Graduate Student Wins Recognition
William White, graduate student in English, has been given recognition recently for his work in unearthing three heretofore unreprinted poems by A. E. Housman and compiling them with an introduction. The title of the book ls “Introduction to the Parallelogram. The Amphisbaena, The Crocodile.’’
Some unnoticed poems by Robinson Jeffers in the SC student publications in 1905 and 1906 also attracted White's attention, and his notes on them received mention in the “Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America” Vol. XXXIV, pages 362-363. December, 1940.
McDiarmid Makes Survey in East
Dr. John McDiarmid, assistant professor of public administration, is absent from campus for the purpose of conducting a national survey of libraries and their management.
Dr. McDiarmid is touring the Middle West and East with his brother. Dr. E. W. McDiarmid of the University of Illinois. The results of their findings will appear in a monograph next summer.
The Andrew Carnegie foundation is sponsoring the research.
Greeks Announce Capture of Fortress
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 2—CP)— Greek forces today occupied, a “most important Italian fortress” the Greek radio broadcast late tonight, without giving its name or locality.
The broadcast said, however, that “almost all the heights between Klisura and Tepelini are in our hands. Large scale fighting is progressing north of Khimara and Greek forces are advancing toward Valona.”
Hancock hall, SC’s newest and most elaborate contribution for the advancement of science and arts will be dedicated formally in Bovard auditorium at 10 a.m. today.
Following a colorful processional across the campus by representative educators of 238 leading universities and colleges from every state in the nation, students will file into the auditorium where Dr. Robert J. Taylor, acting dean of the Graduate School of Religion, will open the ceremonies by delivering the invocation. All classes scheduled for 10 a.m. wiU not convene.
Leading the procession of distinguished educators will be Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid. and a group of trustees, deans, and faculty members from SC. The robed line will include delegates from universities in order of their founding, beginning with Harvard, 1636, and followed by Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth.
MARCH TO ASSEMBLY
The march will begin at 9:30 a. m. and will proceed through the parkway between the Foyer of Town and Gown and Hancock hall, to the fountain-center of Alumni park, and across University avenue to the 10 o’clock assembly.
Dr. von KieinSmid will preside over the ceremony, which will Include an address by Dr. John O. Merriam, president emeritus of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. His subject will be “Responsibility of Science ln Planning for a New World Order."
Previous to Dr. Merriam’* address, the $1,000,000 building will be presented officially to the university by Capt. Allan Hancock, president of the board of trustees, and will be accepted by Dr. von KieinSmid in behalf of the university. TOURS CONDUCTED
Public tours through the building will be conducted during the day, starting at 2:30 p.m. Exhibits of thousands of rare specimens, collected by scientists on the eight cruises of Velero HI, will be shown, along with the. 100 laboratories, a radio-broadcasting studio, and other modem scientific facilities.
In addition to the scientific equipment, the building contains four rooms intact from Captain Hancock’s home and restored In their original Louis XV setting. The Hancock wing will be headquarters for the ensemble of which Captain Hancock is cellist. SNAVELY 9PEAKS *
The dedicatory ceremonies will continue tomorrow with various round-table discussions starting in the morning. Also Included ln the two-day program are a series ot luncheons and dinners on campus for the visiting delegates.
Guest speaker at a luncheon today will be Dr. Guy E. Snavely, executive director of the Association of American Colleges.
Colored motion pictures of strange lands visited by the Vt-lero III expeditions will feature the programs In Hancock auditorium today and tomorrow.
Olson Asks New Work Program
By United Press
Governor Culbert L. Olson last night urged the state legislature to adopt a production and work program for California’s unemployed to meet national defense demands that the nation “produce all the useful goods” it can.
“Whether it be my particular plan is not so Important m lt is that the legislature should attempt some progrssive policy of work relief rather than the present dole policy, and I shall so recommend," Olson said ln a California, radio broadcast.
Group to Hear Braden
The Campbell club for Christian church students will hold a luncheon meeting, 12 M., Monday, at the University Methodist church. Donald Braden, advisor for the group, will speak.
Price of the luncheon is 20 cent*.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
igfe.
DAI LY&TROJAN
XXXII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, January 3, 1941
No. 64
Ingress
Begin
sion
ibers to Face >lem of More Aid to Britain
[ING TON — (U.P.)— »ntly-elected 77th con->nvenes at noon today igurate what may be the most momentous in the nation’s his-
the major problems it (are the explosive Issue of aid to Great Britain. U»-ssident Roosevelt’s loan-to send war materials |nd the question of keep-^se check on progress of -billion dollar prepared-
)RD SET
late made certain today be at least one record I congress will not break.
be the longevity record >y the never-say-die third the 76th congress—367 lis chamber, on motion of Imocratic Leader Alben W. |voted to meet again at tomorrow, just one half re the 76th congress auto-| passes into history, ise earlier had adjourned |when it quit without set-time for its next meeting.
scheduled to come be-lew congress was discus-by President Roosevelt. 5am Ravbum and House ^c Leader John W. Mc-Ravbum said they talk-f. Roosevelt’s forthcoming the union*’ message,” to Monday, and the bud-fe scheduled to reach Dl Tuesday.
TO INCREASE belief is that the budget for appropriations of ).000 of which $10,000,-tould be for defense pur-
Important business trans-1 either chamber today was tion by the senate of J.
ladden. former chairman | national labor relations be a judge of the U. S. [claims.
Extended ill-U Show its, Music
|ts who are preparing composing music for the ersity show have until Feb-turn in their work, ac-Morton Block, manager Productions.
leadline for scripts and extended so that students fk on their contributions id after finals. If their re finished now. however, ly turn them in at any |ock said yesterday, or music may be turned Plav Productions office, ent Union between 3 and ny day during the week. Ipts and music written for will be entered in the ISCAP contest. Winners of script and musical score liwarded $750 each, or if a Inner for both music and chosen he will get $1500.
■,ident's Ice Notice
is the day set jr the dedication of fck hall of the Allan ick Foundation for fic Research.
|ecial assembly to be ?d by official dele-ld guests will be held i.m. in Bovard audi-All regular classes ;used for this period, Ldents are invited to these exercises as the jy of the auditorium frmit.
regular class schedule day will be resumed the close of this as-
B» von KieinSmid
President
Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid—
to accept gift.
Capt. Allan Hancock—presents
university with building.
Dedication Program
(Events listed in the program, below will be open without charge to students, faculty members, and the public.)
10 a.m.—DEDICATION CONVOCATION—Bovard auditorium, Dr. R. B. von KieinSmid presiding
“The Star-Spangled Banner”—led by Dr. Max Krone with Prof. Archibald Sessions at the organ Invocation by Dr. Robert J. Taylor, acting dean, Graduate School of Religion Musical Program: Miss Virginia Card, soprano; Mr.
Jan Haraszthy, pianist Presentation of building—Capt. Allan Hancock. Acceptance for board of trustees by R. B. von KieinSmid, president of the university.
Address—“Responsibility of Science in Planning for a New World Order”—Dr. John C. Merriam, president emeritus, Carnegie Institution of Washington. 2:30 p.m.—BUILDING OPEN TO STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND THE PUBLIC—Tours start on the hour and half-hour throughout the day. Guides will be available at the east foyer of Hancock hall.
(Continued on Page Two)
Foreign' Planes Rain Bombs on Dublin in Series of Raids
DUBLIN, Jan. 3—(U.P.)—Bombs crashed on Dublin early today and buried screaming civilians in the ruins of several houses as foreign warplanes attacked neutral Eire (Ireland) for the fourth time in slightly more than 24 hours.
At least three persons—two girls -
and a woman—are known to have ____ „ _ _
NROTC To Get Naval Gun
Arrival of a 4-inch destroyer-type gun, to be used in familiarizing NROTC students with the care and operation of naval weapons of This explosion was felt throughout j particular type, is expected to-
been killed in the series of raids which began Wednesday night. Many other persons were r ;:orted injured.
One hospital here reported that seven persons were admitted at 4:45 a.m. today suffering from injuries after a lone plane dropped bombs this morning on a Dublin residential section.
A high explosive bomb damaged two blocks of houses in south Dublin
the city. The bomb fell within 150 feet of the famous Griffith barracks in the midst of what is known as Dublin's ghetto.
Windows of houses for several blocks on both sides of the street were shattered and residents were forced to evacuate the dwellings.
The city’s principal synagogue also was wrecked. •
In this raid, houses in Donore Terrace were struck by the bombs and several persons buried in the wreckage. Almost all the windows in homes along Dufferin avenue were shattered by the bomb explosions.
Two houses ln in Etonore Terrace
day, Capt. Reed Fawell stated yesterday.
The gun, complete with mounts, weighs 11.000 pounds, and will be placed in the naval unit’s armory in the basement of the Physical Education building.
CREWS ORGANIZED
Gun crews will be made up from ranks to simulate loading and firing of the weapon, which accommodates shells 4 inches in diameter.
Four .22-caliber rifles were received yesterday. These guns will be used for target practice only, according to Captain Fawell.
were hit directly by the bombs and
eight persons seriously injured were LTCIFORMS ARRIVE
removed from the wreckage. In addition to the rifles. 80 uni-
At 5:30 a.m. police and soldiers forms arrived yesterday for final
still were digging in the wreckage fitting. They will be returned to
for other persons trapped. the factory today for alterations
Fiv areas around Dublin were at- and insignia attachment. Captain
tacked in the series of raids before Fawell expressed his belief that the
bombs finally fell on this city. Three uniforms will be completed in time
bombs last night crashed on a road for next Friday’s drill,
rear a village in county Wexford. He says that the unit will be in
directly south of Dublin. “ship-shape” form when it gets its
In addition to scattering bombs uniforms and that he hopes Rufus
over Ireland the foreign warplanes B. von KieinSmid will be able to
planted magnetic sea mines along review the group in its drill Fri-
the coast facing England. day afternoon, January 17.
One Dead as Bomber Missing
No Word Received From Navy Plane Caught in Storm
BIG SPRING, Tex., Jan. 2— (U.P.)—The commander of a long-range naval bomber, en route with two others from San Diego to Pensacola, today ordered five of his crew to take to parachutes when the ship was caught in a west Texas snow storm.
One man was killed, and tonight, hours after the other two bombers arrived safely at Corpus Christi, Tex., there was no word of Lieut. M. Hanson, pilot, Alamogorda, N.M., and Ensign R. B. Clark, Pomona, co-pilot. They fought to hold aloft their plane which was mushing down under an ice load while the crew bailed out.
CREW JUMPS
The aviation machinist’s mate, second class, who was killed while parachuting to earth was William Frank Percich. 25. Friday Harbor, Wash. He leaves a widow in San Diego.
The other four crew members who parachuted safely to earth were Lloyd J. Hughes, 30, Grand Rapids, Mich., radioman, first class; H. E. Neff, 34, San Diego, aviation chief machinist’s mate; Frank Recke, Jr., 30, National City, Calif., aviation machinist’s mate, first class; and Alfred M. Perry, 31, Los Angeles.
The Navy at San Diego said the plane apparently was having trouble with its radio after running into the storm. t . _ _
PILOTS REMAIN
Landing the 13-ton patrol seaplane on land would be hazardous if not impossible, if the crew wished to escape.
Perry, radioman, third class, “believed” Hanson had the ship under control when the men jumped. In the storm and murk he wasn’t positive.
A flight of planes was scheduled to take off at daybreak tomorrow in the search for Che long-range Navy patrol bomber.
RAF Bombers Shower Bremen With Incendiaries
LONDON, Jan. 2 ——British bombers driving through bittter snowy weather tonight laid thunderous siege to the spearhead of Germany’s “invasion front” after raining 20,000 incendiary bombs on Bremen and its Nazi war plants in a fierce reprisal for London’s ordeal of fire.
Tonight's assult on the German channel bases followed announcement that the RAF, paying the Germans back “in their own coin,” had set fire to Bremen's big Fooke-Wuif aviation factory and left other military targets in flaming ruin in Wednesday night’s assault.
The Bremen attack appeared to have been one of the heaviest yet unleashed by the RAF in its counter offensive, whic’ will be steadily intensified with the arrival of more and more United States bombing planes, being flown across the Atlantic “in a steady stream,” it was said.
The great shipbuilding yards charged with a heavy share in the Germ - conuter-blockade of Britain were the chief objectives of the Pritish bombers.
Nazi Flyers to Aid Italy in Mediterraean
ROME. Jan. 2 — (TP) — Powerful squadrons of the German air force, all hardened veterans of the siege of the British isles, have arrived ln Italy to “collaborate” with th? fascist air force in a “bitter air and naval” showdown against the British in the Mediterranean war zone, it was announced today.
Astronomer to Speak
“The Fallacies of Astrology” will be explained by Dr. Clarence H. Cleminshaw, assistant professor ot astronomy, when he speaks before the Sophomore-Junior club Monday. The group will meet at 12 M. 306 Administration.
Final Apolliad Deadline Set
To many students Valentine's day means candy . . and hearts . . and sweet sentiment.
But to student creative geniuses on campus Friday, February 14. means just one thing—on that day Apolliad manuscripts are due.
That leaves exactly six weeics for student contributors to revise, rewrite. and polish up on their contributions for the Apolliad program, a movement to further creative arts cm the campus.
Faculty advisers will accept creative works in the form of short stories, poetry, essays, one-act plays,
painting, drawing, sketching, sculp-' turing, original musical composi-; tions. or dances. They emphasize the fact that Apolliad is an all-university event and urge students from all fields to contribute.
Contributions selected by the committee will form a program to be presented in Touchstone theater, Old Cofllege, on April 19. Guest critics will judge the student work and send letters of criticism.
In selecting the best manuscripts for the program the faculty committee will choose only compositions best suited for oral presentation.
University Will Dedicate New Hancock Hall Today
Processional to Precede Assembly
DEDICATED TODAY—Hancock hall, $1,000,000 monument to scientific research and cultural edu-ceftion, will be presented officially to SC today. Combining the charm of Italian-Romanesque design with the strength of contemporary architectural lines, the structure harmonizes with the other campus buildings. Unique prehistoric sculptures on the north face of the auditorium remind students of Rancho La Brea, one of the world's finest sources of ancient fossil remains.
Methodist Association College Leaders Meets at SC Monday Attend Services
of addresses on “Implementing the Campus Religious Program” and one on the “Association’s Aims for the Quadrennium” by President Ar-lo A. Brown of Drew Theological Seminary.
“Methodist Education and National Responsibilities” will be the theme of the second annual gathering of the Association of Schools and Colleges of the Methodist church to take place on the campus Monday and Tuesday.
Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid is president of tne association; which includes in its membership 138 institutions. At least 75 of the mem-ber-schools are expected to have representatives at the conference, which precedes the convention of the Association of American colleges, to take place in Pasadena later in the week.
President Umphrey Lee of Southern Methodist university will deliver the principal address of the opening dinner-meeting January 6.
He will discuss Methodist education and national unity. President John L. Seaton of Albion college, will deliver the invocation.
Addresses on the second day’s program will include those by President Fred G. Holloway, Western Maryland college; Dr. Hugh C.
Stunts, Scaritt college; and President H. J. Burgstahler, Ohio Wesleyan university;
President William P. Tolley, Allegheny college; President James L.
Robb, Tennessee Wesleyan college; and Dr. H. W. McPherson, executive secretary of the division of educational institutions, board of education.
The meeting will be concluded Tuesday evening following a series
Petroleum Course to Aid Defense
Designed for the purpose of aiding national defense, a new course approved by the United States government soon will become a part of the program of the College of Engineering.
According to an announcement made yesterday by Dr. Robert E. Vivian, acting dean of the College of Engineering, the class will serve for the testing and inspection of petroleum products. It will extend over a period of 16 weeks.
Dr. Vivian announced that persons planning to enroll must be high school graduates and should have one or two years of engineering training or experience.
The federal government will pay the expenses of the course.
Japanese Club Gives Dinner, Entertainment
Dale Sears, who visited in Japan this past summer, and Ken Matsu-inoto will speak at a dinner and entertainment given in the men’s grill tonight for the members of the Japanese Trojan club.
The affair will start at 6:30 p.m., and the price is 75 cents. Reservations can be made with Ken Uyesugi and Iwao Matsuoka.
Von KieinSmid to Be Honored
Honoring Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid as he begins his 20th year as president of the university, Town and Gown will inaugurate its schedule for 1941 with a luncheon and program next Tuesday.
Tribute will be paid to the Internationally-known educator who has guided the institution from its status as a campus with few buildings to its present standing of 21 major structures.
PRESIDENT TO SPEAK Dr. von KieinSmid will speak on the topic, "Our University.”
Guests at the event will include new members of Town and Gown, and the husbands of all members. Mrs. Paul W. Jones and Mrs. Bertram Eugene Green are in charge of reservations.
RECEIVING LINE Those receiving at the occasion will include:
Mesdames H. O. Bames, J. M. Beach, Robert Brown, Coy Burnett, Len H. Darling, Edward C. Dieter, Anthony Enwer, John P. Herrick, Maude A. Hilton, West Hughes, L. Max Lee, C. E. Love, and Ida S. Olshausen.
Jack Paschell, Henry Prentiss, Neal Rudy, A. E. Sedgwick, Harry Silke, Herbert W. Stanton, Paul Stevens, G. J. Symington, Oscar A. Trippett, O. C. Wellboum, Hugh Willett, Dr. Arlien Johnson, and Miss Joan Scott.
Nation's Universities to Be Represented
Presidents and officials of American universities taking part in the annual convention of the As-socation of American Colleges, to be held at Pasadena’s Hotel Huntington January 9 and 10, will be present today and tomorrow to participate in the two-day ceremonies for the dedication of the new Hancock hall of the Allan Hancock Foundation for Scientific Research.
Theme of the conference, which represents 556 institutions throughout the nation, will be “Liberal Education and Democracy.”
Dr. Edward V. Stanford of Villanova college, Pennsylvania, ls president of the association. Educators in charge of the meeting here are Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid; Dr. Remsen D. Bird, president of Occidental college and vice-president of the association; and Dr. Charles K. Edmunds, president of Pomona college.
Among speakers at the meetings will be Henry Luce, editor of Time; Count Carlo Sforza, formerly Italian minister of foreign affairs; Paul van Zeeland, former prime minister of Belgium; and Reinhold Schairer of the University of London.
Graduate Student Wins Recognition
William White, graduate student in English, has been given recognition recently for his work in unearthing three heretofore unreprinted poems by A. E. Housman and compiling them with an introduction. The title of the book ls “Introduction to the Parallelogram. The Amphisbaena, The Crocodile.’’
Some unnoticed poems by Robinson Jeffers in the SC student publications in 1905 and 1906 also attracted White's attention, and his notes on them received mention in the “Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America” Vol. XXXIV, pages 362-363. December, 1940.
McDiarmid Makes Survey in East
Dr. John McDiarmid, assistant professor of public administration, is absent from campus for the purpose of conducting a national survey of libraries and their management.
Dr. McDiarmid is touring the Middle West and East with his brother. Dr. E. W. McDiarmid of the University of Illinois. The results of their findings will appear in a monograph next summer.
The Andrew Carnegie foundation is sponsoring the research.
Greeks Announce Capture of Fortress
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 2—CP)— Greek forces today occupied, a “most important Italian fortress” the Greek radio broadcast late tonight, without giving its name or locality.
The broadcast said, however, that “almost all the heights between Klisura and Tepelini are in our hands. Large scale fighting is progressing north of Khimara and Greek forces are advancing toward Valona.”
Hancock hall, SC’s newest and most elaborate contribution for the advancement of science and arts will be dedicated formally in Bovard auditorium at 10 a.m. today.
Following a colorful processional across the campus by representative educators of 238 leading universities and colleges from every state in the nation, students will file into the auditorium where Dr. Robert J. Taylor, acting dean of the Graduate School of Religion, will open the ceremonies by delivering the invocation. All classes scheduled for 10 a.m. wiU not convene.
Leading the procession of distinguished educators will be Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid. and a group of trustees, deans, and faculty members from SC. The robed line will include delegates from universities in order of their founding, beginning with Harvard, 1636, and followed by Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth.
MARCH TO ASSEMBLY
The march will begin at 9:30 a. m. and will proceed through the parkway between the Foyer of Town and Gown and Hancock hall, to the fountain-center of Alumni park, and across University avenue to the 10 o’clock assembly.
Dr. von KieinSmid will preside over the ceremony, which will Include an address by Dr. John O. Merriam, president emeritus of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. His subject will be “Responsibility of Science ln Planning for a New World Order."
Previous to Dr. Merriam’* address, the $1,000,000 building will be presented officially to the university by Capt. Allan Hancock, president of the board of trustees, and will be accepted by Dr. von KieinSmid in behalf of the university. TOURS CONDUCTED
Public tours through the building will be conducted during the day, starting at 2:30 p.m. Exhibits of thousands of rare specimens, collected by scientists on the eight cruises of Velero HI, will be shown, along with the. 100 laboratories, a radio-broadcasting studio, and other modem scientific facilities.
In addition to the scientific equipment, the building contains four rooms intact from Captain Hancock’s home and restored In their original Louis XV setting. The Hancock wing will be headquarters for the ensemble of which Captain Hancock is cellist. SNAVELY 9PEAKS *
The dedicatory ceremonies will continue tomorrow with various round-table discussions starting in the morning. Also Included ln the two-day program are a series ot luncheons and dinners on campus for the visiting delegates.
Guest speaker at a luncheon today will be Dr. Guy E. Snavely, executive director of the Association of American Colleges.
Colored motion pictures of strange lands visited by the Vt-lero III expeditions will feature the programs In Hancock auditorium today and tomorrow.
Olson Asks New Work Program
By United Press
Governor Culbert L. Olson last night urged the state legislature to adopt a production and work program for California’s unemployed to meet national defense demands that the nation “produce all the useful goods” it can.
“Whether it be my particular plan is not so Important m lt is that the legislature should attempt some progrssive policy of work relief rather than the present dole policy, and I shall so recommend," Olson said ln a California, radio broadcast.
Group to Hear Braden
The Campbell club for Christian church students will hold a luncheon meeting, 12 M., Monday, at the University Methodist church. Donald Braden, advisor for the group, will speak.
Price of the luncheon is 20 cent*.